Larry Parks, a 17-year-old Black male, was walking in Wilmington on the afternoon of January 21, 2012, when gunfire shattered the quiet on the 300 block of New Castle Avenue. Officers responding around 3:54 p.m. found him in the street with a gunshot wound to the chest; paramedics rushed him to Christiana Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Parks lived in Bear and was a tenth-grade student at Pencader Charter High School, where counselors and classmates soon gathered to grieve.
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